Global warming
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Updated: July 26, 2012
Global warming has become perhaps the most complicated issue facing world leaders. Warnings from the scientific community are becoming louder, as an increasing body of science points to rising dangers from the ongoing buildup of human-related greenhouse gases — produced mainly by the burning of fossil fuels and forests.
Global emissions of carbon dioxide jumped by the largest amount on record in 2010, upending the notion that the brief decline during the recession might persist through the recovery. Emissions rose 5.9 percent in 2010, according to the Global Carbon Project, an international collaboration of scientists. The increase solidified a trend of ever-rising emissions that scientists fear will make it difficult, if not impossible, to forestall severe climate change in coming decades.
However, the technological, economic and political issues that have to be resolved before a concerted worldwide effort to reduce emissions can begin have gotten no simpler, particularly in the face of a global economic slowdown.
For almost two decades, the United Nations has sponsored annual global talks, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, an international treaty signed by 194 countries to cooperatively discuss global climate change and its impact. The conferences operate on the principle of consensus, meaning that any of the participating nations can hold up an agreement.
The conflicts and controversies discussed are monotonously familiar: the differing obligations of industrialized and developing nations, the question of who will pay to help poor nations adapt, the urgency of protecting tropical forests and the need to rapidly develop and deploy clean energy technology.
But the meetings have often ended in disillusionment, with incremental political progress but little real impact on the climate. The negotiating process itself has come under fire from some quarters, including the poorest nations who believe their needs are being neglected in the fight among the major economic powers. Criticism has also come from a small but vocal band of climate-change skeptics, many of them members of the United States Congress, who doubt the existence of human influence on the climate and ridicule international efforts to deal with it.
Political Paralysis in the United States
On the day he clinched the Democratic nomination for president in 2008, Barack Obama declared that future generations would look back and say, “This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.” He made addressing climate change, domestically and as part of a concerted international effort, a central tenet of his campaign platform and a top priority of his first year in office.
Then the president backed off, hamstrung by an economic crisis and implacable opposition from Republicans, who were cheered on and financed by their ideological allies and fossil fuel companies. International talks organized by the United Nations made scant progress, not least because the United States was unwilling to accept a binding accord unless it required comparable emissions cuts by all countries regardless of their stage of economic development.
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ARTICLES ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING
Get It Right on Gas
We can have a natural gas revolution that transforms our whole country or one that just transforms the electric grid. What’s it going to be?
August 04, 2012, Saturday
Is It Hot Enough for Ya?
This summer’s extreme weather offers an opportunity to change the way our country deals with the environment, and to lock in public acceptance of climate change.
August 04, 2012, Saturday
Who Are Your Sources?
People’s receptivity to climate messages depends to a large degree on where they stand on a scale of belief in climate change, from dismissive to alarmed.
August 3, 2012
Slowing Down (East)
A shift to slow blogging during a journey Down East.
August 2, 2012
Facts Are Offensive
The scientific consensus on climate change offends Jeff Sessions.
August 2, 2012
Wide Differences Found in Large Buildings’ Power Use
If the worst-performing large buildings in the city improved their efficiency to just average, the city’s energy consumption could decline by at least 18 percent.
August 02, 2012, Thursday
Strong Storms Threaten Ozone Layer Over U.S., Study Says
The risk of damage may increase as the climate warms and storms grow more intense and more frequent, the study said.
July 26, 2012, Thursday
The Endless Summer
Here’s what American exceptionalism means now: on a per-capita basis, we either lead or come close to leading the world in consumption of resources, production of pollutants and a profound unwillingness to do anything about it. We may look back upon this year as the one in which climate change began to wreak serious havoc, yet we hear almost no conversation about changing policy or behavior. President Obama has done nicely in raising fuel averages for automobiles, but he came into office promis…
July 19, 2012, Thursday
British Close Case on Climate E-mails, With No Suspects
British police concluded that the hacking of messages from the University of East Anglia’s climate change research institute was carried out by an unknown outsider.
July 19, 2012, Thursday
Alaskan Salmon Evolve Along With the Climate
Researchers have found genetic evidence that temperature-driven changes in migration and reproduction behaviors may be evidence of natural selection at work.
July 17, 2012, Tuesday
For Climbers, Risks Now Shift With Every Step
TALKEETNA, Alaska — At 16,400 feet on Mount McKinley, Eric Roche looked toward the summit, still nearly 4,000 feet distant through deep and perilous snow. Then he looked at the picture of his wife and son, mounted on his ice ax and carried through two weeks of climbing. And he changed his mind. He would go home. ”The avalanche risk seemed too great,” he said last week as he unpacked his kit in this small town at the foot of McKinley in south-central Alaska. ”I feel good about the decisi…
July 15, 2012, Sunday
For Climbers, Risks Now Shift With Every Step
In climbing lore, coming back down the mountain safely, rather than reaching the summit, is the ultimate measure of success. Around the world this year, it has been a bad season in that respect.
July 15, 2012, Sunday
The Heat Wave and Global Warming
The recent heat wave raises the question, again, of whether extreme weather can be attributed to human-induced climate change. The answer is yes.
July 11, 2012, Wednesday
Global Warming Makes Heat Waves More Likely, Study Finds
Researchers around the world studied six extreme weather events from 2011 and published the results in six months.
July 11, 2012, Wednesday
Steep Fuel Prices Driving Push for Efficient Aircraft
Europe’s effort to make international air carriers pay for their greenhouse gas emissions may have less effect on pollution than the high price of fuel, which is already forcing airlines to become more efficient.
July 09, 2012, Monday
The Fires This Time
CASCADE, Colo. NATURE makes a mockery of our vanity. We live in flood and fire zones, nurture stately oaks and take shade under pines holding the best air of the Rocky Mountains. We plant villas next to sandstone spires called the Garden of the Gods, and McMansions in Virginia stocked with people who have the world at their fingertips.
July 08, 2012, Sunday
‘Blame-ologists’ and the Colorado Fires
A free market defender, dislocated by Colorado fires, uses the tactics she criticizes in others in commenting on the disaster.
July 7, 2012
Destructive Derecho Tracked by Satellite
A satellite captures the birth and track of an amazingly destructive storm system.
July 5, 2012
District by District, Climate Change in Los Angeles
A projection of conditions at mid-century factors in the interplay between the desert, mountains, wind and fog.
July 5, 2012
Coral Rebounded From Hostile Climate Millenniums Ago, Study Suggests
Researchers who took core samples from reefs off the coast of Panama found that the reefs effectively experienced a growth hiatus during a period of climatic extremes.
July 10, 2012, Tuesday
Can China Follow U.S. Shift from Coal to Gas?
Can China follow the American pattern and cut warming emissions through a shift from coal to gas?
July 4, 2012
A Carbon Tax, Sensible for All
A carbon tax is an opportunity to reduce existing taxes, clean up the environment and increase personal freedom and energy security.
July 05, 2012, Thursday
A Climate Scientist Battles Time and Mortality
COLUMBUS, Ohio — One day in 1991, high in the thin, crystalline air of the Peruvian Andes, Lonnie G. Thompson saw that the world’s largest tropical ice cap was starting to melt. It was the moment he realized that his life’s work had suddenly become a race. The discovery meant other ice caps were likely to melt, too, and the tales of past climate that they contained could disappear before scientists had a chance to learn from them.
July 03, 2012, Tuesday
Lonnie Thompson, Climate Scientist, Battles Time and Mortality
Lonnie G. Thompson, one of the scientists who essentially discovered global warming, has for years climbed mountains to gather ice he examines for climatic changes.
July 03, 2012, Tuesday
Life and Death of the Beach
Beaches have gone from backdrops of death to sunny, idyllic spots to imperiled expanses.
June 30, 2012, Saturday
Pondering a Link Between Forest Fires and Climate Change
Scientists discuss the extent to which extreme heat and wildfires in the West can be attributed to climate change.
June 28, 2012
‘Gasland’ Filmmaker Takes on Cuomo and ‘Dot.FlatEarth’
A filmmaker deadset on banning gas fracking lays out his concerns.
June 28, 2012
Federal Appeals Court Upholds CO2 Rules
A federal appeals court upholds rules restricting carbon dioxide as a pollutant under the Clean Air Act.
June 26, 2012
Cooking the Planet or the Self, an Uneasy Choice
The rising demand of air-conditioners among India’s middle classes to sustain the soaring temperatures, could worsen global warming.
June 25, 2012
Rio+20 Conference Ends, With Some Progress on the Sidelines
The meeting produced no enforceable environmental commitments, but showed the growing capacity of organizations and corporations to mold effective action without the blessing of governments.
June 24, 2012, Sunday
After Rio+20, We Have to Solve the Earth’s Problems
Government progress on the environment is slow, but the world’s people can assert their will and power to fix our problems.
June 23, 2012, Saturday
Dispatches from Rio: None from Obama?
What President Obama might have said had he gone to the Rio environment summit.
June 21, 2012
Relief in Every Window, but Global Worry, Too
The potential cooling demands of upwardly mobile Mumbai have been estimated to be a quarter of those of the United States.
June 21, 2012
Relief in Every Window, but Global Worry Too
In the ramshackle apartment blocks and sooty concrete homes that line the dusty roads of urban India, there is a new status symbol on proud display. An air-conditioner has become a sign of middle-class status in developing nations, a must-have dowry item. It is cheaper than a car, and arguably more life-changing in steamy regions, where cooling can make it easier for a child to study or a worker to sleep.
June 21, 2012, Thursday
The Great Thaw
Is Antarctica hostile to humans or in need of them? The answer may surprise you.
June 22, 2012, Friday
BOM bunuh diri di masjid Polresta Cirebon!
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Berita Ujian nasional 2011 terbaru
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